Improvement in mounting pictures



EMMA L. COURTNEY.

Improvement in Mounting Pictures.

N0. 128,125. PatentedJune18,1872.

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EMMA L. COURTNEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOUNTING PICTURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,125, dated June 18, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Mounting and Supporting Pictures, invented by EMMA L. COURTNEY, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This invention consists in mounting or holding a picture in such a manner that the frame may be dispensed with and the picture have,

' at a distance, the appearance of the original article, as fruit, flowers, 850., the subject of the picture.

The picture represented in the accompanying drawing has for its subject a plate of in 11:31;- melons.

Fig. 1 shows a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a

4 side elevation.

The picture 0 is first properly painted upon the canvas, and its outline is cut out, or the canvas surrounding it cut away, so as to leave the picture in relief. It is then mounted upon the plate A, which is also cut to agree with the outline, and is held in position at the proper angle by the bottom part or base B of the plate A. The plate A can be adjusted to stand at any angle with the base B by bendin g the latter at the angle or part where the two meet.

As thus made the picture has, at a distance, the appearance of the subject itself, and a new and beautiful article is produced, which renders the use of a frame unnecessary.

Claim. 

